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Fun, friends and leadership. That’s what 27 LaRue County FFA members came to know during the camp at the Kentucky FFA Leadership Training Center in Hardinsburg, Kentucky.

The 13 chapters present were involved in activities like softball, volleyball, soccer, ropes course, water ball, and many others. Members were also a part of classes like agriculture advocacy, conservation, and going to college, in which they gained the skills of everything from leadership to communication to learning ways to survive.

The only date to bring in pesticide containers for the Rinse and Return Program will be. Triple rinsed, five gallon or less, plastic pesticide containers can be brought to Southern States in Hodgenville between 9 and 11 a.m. today for recycling. All containers should be clean and have labels removed. Please do not bring containers that are not properly rinsed. Have the lid removed, and the label removed as well as possible. There is no charge for the program, but it does allow you to get rid of containers in an environmentally safe way.

Maximizing every bit of profit from your farm is a key to success. As a landowner, one thing that may not be at the top of your mind is your farm’s woodlands, but you should manage them just like crops, fields, gardens or other agricultural endeavors.

The annual Nathan McCurry Memorial Bowl Bash is at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, August 12 at The LCHS football field. Admission is $5 and t-shirts will be available for $12 each with $3 per shirt being donated to the Scout McCurry’s Scholarship Fund. There will also be a welcome for the new LaRue County Middle School football coach Raymond Bates.

Beginning this fall, the Girl’s Middle School Basketball program will enter the 2017 season with a new head coach and her name is Emily Skaggs.

Emily is a former LaRue County Hawk girls’ basketball player and a 2006 LCHS graduate. Throughout her playing career at LaRue County, she had the opportunity to gain basketball knowledge under several coaches including Lisa Drake, Peter Distefano, Renata Kuchowicz, and Travis Wootton.